Person

Emanuel Spence (Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer and solider.)

b. 1830?

Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer and solider. Virginia native. Married to Zelphina Spence. Father of Wallace Bailey Spence, Elizabeth Spence, and James Spence. Farmer in Lawrence County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 68th Kentucky Enrolled Militia as a corporal from May 21, 1864 to June 22, 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 605

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Precinct 7, p. 248A.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 893.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application 546195, Certificate 410880.

Citation

Spence, Emanuel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211040 (November 12, 2026).

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